Word: brabant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...views and wishes" held by General van Overstraeten, they decided the following: "1) If the German forces attacked Holland but did not come south of Nijmegen and the Rhine, Belgium would not move; 2) if the German advance were directed south of Nijmegen and especially across Dutch Brabant, Belgium would order immediate general mobilization and declare that her own security was threatened." The German Ambassador in Brussels telephoned Berlin the gist of Belgium's decision. "The news from Brussels was received when Generals Keitel, Reichenau and Blaskowitz were assembled in Berlin for a final conference to settle the last...
...Gogh was not a Frenchman. He was born in Zundert, Brabant province, The Netherlands, son of a Dutch clergyman and his wife, Anna Cornelia. It is true that his distinctive yellow coloring was developed during his residence...
Three months ago President Roosevelt read in his morning papers that Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, had become King of the Belgians. There was no doubt of it whatever in his mind, for the Press carried pictures of the ceremony. But Belgium was not sure that the President had read the papers. Nor was she sure that the President would believe Ambassador May should he call at the White House with the news...
...wrong reason. He calls it a philosophy of wish fulfillment, but that is because he does not know anything about William of Occam, or Thomas Aquinas, or any of the mediaeval rebels whose scholasticism led them into the friar movement, and knows too much abut Siger of Brabant and Buridan. Professors DeWulf and Gilson have been so busy defending scholastic philosophy that they have never had time to use it; the time to condemn the scholastic view on Russia is after a competent scholastic philosopher has formed it, not after it has been conjectured by people who are not only...
...Relict Gertrude Hickman Thompson, $7,756,755 in trust and the $1,000,000 Yonkers house; to Daughter Margaret Hickman Schulz Biddle, a $5,756,555 trust fund. Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 80; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 75; Senator James Eli Watson of Indiana, 68; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir, 31. Died. Frances Burnett, 22, vanilla extract scioness; Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr., 29, Boston socialite, president of Skyways, Inc.; and Frank Penrose Sproul, 25, Harvardman, assistant manager of Skyways, Inc.; instantly, when Ames's cabin monoplane went into a tail spin at a height...